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B  3  53fl 


GREELEY  VS.  GRANT, 


of  True  Democrats. 


ANfcOPEN  BETTER  BY  HON.  PHILLIP  CLAYTON,  OP 

GEORGIA. 


DEMOCRAT  THINKS—  LETTER 
GEN?  JOHN  A.  DIX,  OP  NEW  YORK. 


OP 


,  GA.,  July  22, 1873. 
To  tlib  wl&r&vf  Qsorgiat 

When  the  Baltimore  Convention  dissolved 
tile-Democratic  party,,  by  substituting  a  now 
platform  of  principles  for  the  time-honored 
one  it  was  their  pride  to  proclaim  and  their 
boast  to  maintain;  and  when  upon  this  new 
platform  they  placed  a  candidate  with  whom 
they  had  antagonized  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  it  left  each  individual  Democrat  to 
choose  between  the  only  two  candidates  in 
tlio  Held,  General  Grant  and  Mr.  Greeley. 
In  the  exercise  of  the  right  which  belonged 
to  each  individual  member,  and  in  obedience 
to  the  stern  ne«essity  their  action  had  im 
posed,  I  gave  publicity  to  the  course,  which 
L  had  of  6  repeated  In  private  circles,  I  in 
tended to  pursue.  In  doing  ,so  I  have  aroused 
tne  indignation  of  that  portion  of  the  press  of 
$hi3  State  who-  have  determined,  some  from 
Choice  and  some  from  the  irresistible  despotism 
of  party,  to  support  Mr.  Greeley.  Their  modes 
oflexpressing  their  disapprobation  are  various 
ana  amusing— one  thinks  and  so  says, ' '  I  have 
.runt/the  thing  in  the  ground;"  another  says 
0n*>P2*Glayton  has  written  a  letter  in  favor 
of -Grant -/.^another  is  merciful  on  account 
oJ&jjiy  former  position  and  the  standing  of 
my*  family,  while  another  has  a  statement 
thaflvwaa  influenced  to  the  course  I  have 
thought v  proper  to  pursue  from  motives  of 
fnterestCfrl  mention  these,  not  that  I  am  go- 
cigto  make  waxrupon  the  press,  but  to  re 
mind  them  that  courtesy,  in  any  discueaion, 
whether  moral,  legal  or  political,  is  the  dis 
tinguishing  characteristic  of  a  gentleman; 
and  *yhile,  from  the  manner  in  which  I  have 
ibeen^reated^  X  aui  under  no  obligation  to 
them  .to  impart  the  information,  if,  in  the 
f  uture^they  will  profit  by  the  instruction, 
they. :  W- 


The  people  of  Georgia  are  now  interested 
in  but  ono  issue  in  the  pending  controversy 
for  President,  and  that  involves  exclusively 
their  honor.  In  my  opinion  t'.iey  can-  voto 
for  General  Grant  and  maintain  it.  Tlioy 
can  not  vote  for  Mr.  Greeley  without  trailing 
it  in  the  duat. 

In  my  former  letter  I  gave  only  some  gen 
eral  reasons  for  the  course  I  intended  to  pur 
sue,  knowing  that  it  was  impossible,  hav 
ing  regard  for  the  truth  of  history,  to  contro 
vert  the  reasons  for  my  opposition  to  Mr. 
Greeley. 

The  Baltimore  Convention  acted  more  like 
a  mob,  it  they  have  been  correctly  reported, 
than  like  statesmen  seeking  tho  public  good 
and  guarding  the  public  interest.  The  Wash 
ington  CHRONICLE,  tho  Washington  Patriot, 
and  tho  Baltimore  Sun  (see  their  issues  of 
the  llth  and  12th  instants)  represented  in 
their  report  of  the  proceedings  of  said  con 
vention  that  the  old  song  of  "John  Brown" 
was  sung  on  the  occasion,  and  that  when  Mr. 
Bayard,  of  Delaware,  attempted  to  speak  in 
favor  of  Democratic  principles  he  was  hissed. 

Such  was  the  birth  of  this  new  party  and 
new  candidate.  Other  comment  is  unneces 
sary,  than  the  inquiry,  which  addresses  itself 
to  every  voter  in  Georgia,  "Can  you  main 
tain  your  honor  by  voting  for  such  a  can 
didate  or  sustaining  such  a  coalition?" 
The  cry  of,  "anybody  to  4.  beat  Grant" 
may  sustain  you  under  excitement,  but  when 
the  calm  hour  of  reflection  comes,  as  it  will, 
you  will  be  mortified  in  tho  remembrance 
that  you  suffered  your  judgment  and  your1 
justice  to  be  influenced  by  your  passions  and 
prejudices.  Preliminary  to  investigating  the 
life  and  history  of  this  new-found  favorite- 
to-  Southern  sympathy,  I  propose  to  remind 


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they  have  been  betrayed  by  the  Baltimore 
convention  and  the  acknowledged  mode  of 
how  they  are  to  beguiled. 

The  first  exposition  of  tha  ac,fciq.o,  of  theJ 
Baltimore  Convention  tookpiapftat\^ilming-i|[ 
ton,  N.  O.f  on  the  126Mtt3feEt  f$ee>  Wash-S}^ 
higton  Patriot  of  the  13th,  the -Democratic 
organ.)  The  two-  principal  speakers*  were 
Senator  Tipton,  of  Nebraska,  and  Senator. 
Stockton,  of  New  Jersey,  representatives  of 
the  twu  wings  of  the  coalition.  Senator 
Stockton  paid,  on  that  occasion,  "There  was 
;v  wide  difference  between  the  antecedents 
of  the  preceding  speaker  (Senator  Tipton)' 
and  himself.  He  was  proud  to  say  of  him 
self  that  he  had  alwaya  been,  was  now,  and 
always  would  be  a  Democrat.  He  was  as 
tonished  at  himself,  finding  he  had  come  here 
to  ask  these  people  to  vote  for  such  a  man  as 
Horace  Greeley.  lie  was  not  surprised  at 
his  colleague  (Mr.  Tipton)  for  doing  so;  but 
for  himself  he  could  hardly  comprehend  how 
it  came  about.  He  had  been  sent  by  the 
people  of  New  Jersey  to  the  Baltimore  Con 
vention  withoutinstructious.  He  believed  his 
constituents  did  not  want  him  to  vote  for  Mr. 
Greeley,  and  on  the  first  ballot  he  was  oue 
of  that  small  number  who  had  voted 
against  him.  His  people  did  not  want  Mr. 
Greeley;  so  far  as  they  were  concerned  thay 
would  have  elected  a  Democrat.  It  was  your 
Southern  men  who  did  this.  You  forced 
them  upon  us  and  now  wa  shall  look  to  you 
in  November  to  vindicate  your  wisdom.'*  I 
have  given  this  extract  from  Senator  Stock 
ton's  speech  to  show  the  infatuation  of  the 
Southern  delegations  at  Baltimore,  as  well  as 
to  fix  the  responsibility  of  Greeley's  nomina 
tion  where  it  belongs.  Senator  Stockton  de 
clared  in  a  public  speech  on  Southern  soil: 
"It  was  your  Southern  men  who  did  this." 
And  yet  there  is  not  within  the  broad  limits 
of  Georgia  a  supporter  of  Greeley  among 
the  Democrats  who  pretends  that  he  has  any 
other  recommendation  than  "anybody  to  beat 
<  rrant."  It  in  the  excuse  of  every  Southern 
delegation,  we  could  not  elect  a  Democrat 
and  we  were  compelled  to  take  Greeley  and 
his  platform,  and  yet  in  the  very  opening  of 
the  campaign,  on  Southern  territory,  a 
Northern  Democratic  Senator  proclaims:  "It 
was  your  Southern  men  who  did  this— you 
forced  them  upon  us."  What  a  spectacle! 
And  worse  than  all,  wiiat  a  humiliation!  But 
the  action  of  the  Baltimore  Convention  is  a 
past  issue.  The  living  issue  is,  must  the  people 
oi'  the  South  obey  their  dictation?  It  is  a  re 
markable  faet  that  in  this  State,  so  far  as  I 
h;ivo  been  able  t:>  examine,  there  has  not  ap 
peared  a  single  editorial  in  any  Democratic 
iKipcr  recommending  Mr.  Greeley  upon  his 
merits  to  the  h:,(7''  ffice  to  which  they  have 
nominated  him. 

If  they  turn  lo  ;  3  past  record  of  his  life, 
it,  is  made  up  cf  vindictive  abuse  of  the, 
Siatlurn  peoplo  and  their  institutions,  and 
i.  they  look  "to  Ins  proniisqs  for  the  future 
tK:y  find  nothing  but  his  assurance,  in  uc- 


were '  Hwe-  reraem 


cei-ting  the  nomination,  that  "he  was  as 
much  a  Republican  as  he  ever  was."  If 
t!:ey  turn  to  the  platform  of  principles 
upon  which  they  have  placed  him,  besides 
some  general  declarations,  in  which  every 


political  organization  freely-  indulges* /they 
discover  nothing  but  a  pledge  to  "maintain 
.union  o^.thesevStatej&emaucipation  anJ 
any  reopen- 


ts  oft  -the 


iConstitut      ..     .......„_ 

t  ., _. rTT__K heroism 

and.  sacrifice»of1th^  soldiers  and&ailors  of  the 
Republican*;  novact,  of  <oUrs  shall  everde- 
tract  from  .their^ustly-eiumecKame  or  the 
full  re  ward  of  their  patriotism.'*  The  thou 
sands  of  Southern  soldiera»who  sleep  in  their 
graves  made  sacred  by  their  efforts  to  defend 
our  rights,  are  not  even  honored  with  a're- 
spectful  remembrance* 

I  am  not  drawing  upon*  your  sympathy, 
but  am  recording  what  ha*  oecome  history; 
if  it  does  not  arouse  your  indignation  it  will, 
at  least,  excite  your  astonishment.  Contrast 
ing  the  life  of  General  Grant  with  that  of 
Mr.  Greeley,  no  one  can  fail  to  perceive  the 
difference.  The  one  indicates  no  want  of  hu 
manity,  the  other  exhibits  no  evidence  of 
kindness  or  affection.  If  you  take  the  ad- 
ministration  of  General  Grant  in  its  details 
or  its  totality  you  will  not  find  a  measure  re 
pulsive  to  Southern  sentiment  that  did  not 
meet  the  warm  approval  of  Mr.  Oreeley. 
Even  the  Kuklux  law,  which  every  Southern 
man  condemned,  challenged  the  admiration 
of  Mr.  Greeley  to  such  an  extent  that  he  de 
clared  that  "  on  every  proper  occasion  he  had 
advocated  and  justified  the  Kuklux  act."  *rl 
hold  it,"  he  said,  "especially  desirable  for  the 
South;  and  if  it  does  not  prove  strong  enough 
to  effect  its  purpose  I  hope  it  will  be  made 
stronger  and  stronger." 

I  have  sought  in  vain  to  find  one  sentiment 
ever  uttered  or  published  by  Mr.  Greeley  in 
which  he  manifested  even  a  common  human 
ity  toward  the  people  of  the  South.  His 
friends  say  that  he  went  on  Mr.  Davis'  bond, 
and  magnify  this  single  virtue  to  such  an  ex 
tent  as  to  claim  for  him  a  merit  that  entitles 
him  to  be  made  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  this 
great  nation.  But  give  him  the  benefit  of  all 
they  claim,  how  poorly  does  it  contrast  with 
the  noble  conduct  of  General  Grant  in  stand 
ing  by  and  defending  that  greatest  of  patriots, 
General  Robert  E.  Lee.  In  the  appaadix, 
page  553,  of  the  life  of  General  Lee,  by  J.  E. 
Cooke,  the  Hon.  Reverdy  Johnson,  in  a  tribute 
to  General  Lee,  upon  the  occasion^  of  his 
death,  remarks,  "When  I  heard  he  was  about 
to  be  prosecuted  in  a  Virginia  court  for  the 
alleged  crime  of  treason,  I  wrote  to  him  at 
once,  and  with  all  my  heart,  that  if  he  be 
lieved  1  could  be  of  any  service  to  him  pro 
fessionally,  I  was  at  his  command."  I  re 
ceived  a  characteristic  reply  in.  terms  of 
friendship  and  grateful  thanks.  •  He  wrote 
that  he  did  not  think  the  prosecution  would 
take  place.  Hearing,  however,  some  time 
after  that  the  prosecution  would  conamenc  / 
at  Richmond,  I  went  at  once  to  that  city  an  - 
saw  his  legal  adviser,  Hon.  William. H.  Me 
Farlaud,  one  of  the  ablest  men  of  theba. 
of  Virginia.  Mr.  McFarland  showed  me  a 
copy  of  a  letter  from  General  Loe  to  Gene 
ral  Grant,  inclosing  an  application  for.  a 
pardon  which,  he  desired  General  GrauJ  to 
present  to  tli<i  "^re^ident,  but 


3 


to  present  it  i&any  steps  had  been  taken  fo 
his  prosecution?  aa  ha  was  willing  to  stanc 
the  test*  General  Grant  at  once  replied ,  anc 
he  showed  hla  reply  to  mev  He*  wrote  that 
he*  had  see»  the*  .President  and  protested* 
against  any  etepa  being  taken  against  Gen 
era!  Lee,  and  Informed  him  that  ha  con 
sidered  his  honor  and  the  honor  of  the  na 
tion  pledged  to  him.  The  President  became 
satisfied,  and  no-  proceedings  were-  ever 
taken..  General  Grant  transmitted  tor  the 
President  the.  application  of  General  Lee  for 
pardon^Jndorsea  with  his  most  earnest  ap 
proval*  No  pardon  was  granted."  lam 
now  contrasting  the  hearts  of  the  two  candi 
dates—In  their  political  opinions  there  is  no 
difference— in  that  period  of  tune  which  em 
braces  General  Grant's  administration. 

One  other  scsap  from  the  records  and  I  am 
donewfor  the  present  When  General  Lee 
reached  the  point  where  a  continuance  of  the 
Btruggle  was  madness,  ho  received  the  follow 
ing  letter  from  General  Grant: 

APRIL  7,  18G5. 
General R.JS.  Lee,  Commanding  Q.  8.  A.: 

,  QENERAL*  The  result  of  the  last  week 
must  -convince  you  of  the  hopelessness-  ot 
further  resistance  on  the  part  of  the  Army  of 
Northern  Virginia  in  this  struggle.  1  feel 
that  it  is  so,  and  regard  it  as  my  duty  to  shift 
from  myself  the  responsibility  of  any  fur 
ther  effusion  of  blood  by  asking*  of  you  the 
surrender  of  that  portion  of  the  Confederate 
Southern  army  known  as  the  Army  of  North 
ern  Virginia* 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

U.  S.  GRANT, 
Lieutenanf  General  Commanding  Armies  of 

United  States. 

APRIL  7,  1865. 

GENERAL:  I. have  received  your  note  of 
this  day.  Though  not  entirely  of  the  opin 
ion  you  express  of  the  hopelessness  of  further 
resistance  on  the  part  of  the  army  of  North 
ern  Virginia,  I  reciprocate  your  desire  to 
avoid  useless  effusion  of  blood,  and  there 
fore,  before  considering  your  proposition,  ask 
the  terms  you  will  offer  on  condition  of  its 
surrender.  R.  E.  LEE;  General. 

To  Lieutenant  General  U.  S.  GRANT,  com 
manding  army  of  the  United  States. 
The'  result  of  this  correspondence  was  a 
surrender,,  which  is  as  follows: 

APPO:MATTOX  COURT  HOUSE, 

April  9,  1865. 
General  R.iE.  Lee,  Commanding  C.  S.  A. : 

In  accordance  with  the  substance  of  my 
letter  to  you  of  the  8th  instant,  1  propose  to 
receive  the  surrender  of  the  Army  of  North 
ern,  Virginia  on  the  following  terms,  to  wit: 
Rolls  of  all  the  officers  and  men  to  bo  made 
in  duplicate,  one  copy  to  be  given  to  an  offi 
cer  designated  byomo^the  .other  to  be  De 
tained  by  such 'officers  as  you  may  designate. 


The  officers  to  give  their  individual  parole 
not  to  take  arms  against  the  Government  of 
the  United  States  until  properly  exchanged, 
and^each  company  or  regimental  commander 
to  .sign*  a.  like  parole  for.  the  men.  of  their 
commands. 

Thotarms,  artillery,  aud--,publi(jvproperty^o 
be  parked  an*  stacked-  and  turned£oveiyta 
the  officers  appointed''  by  me  to  reeeiv»-thent» 
i  Thi»wilf  not  embrace  the  side-arms*oi$the 
officers,  nor  their  private  horses  or  baggage. 

This  done,  each  officer  andr  man^will^be 
allowed  to  return  to  their  homes,  not- to*ba 
disturbed  by  United  States  authority  so*long 
as  they  observe  their  parole  and  thevawstin 
force  where  they  may  reside.  Ven*cespect- 
fully,  U.  S.'  GRANTS 

Lieut.,  General. 

HEADQUARTERS  ARMY  OF-  NORTHERN 

VIRGINIA,  April  9;- 1865. 
Lieutenant  General  U.  IS.  Qrant^  Command 
ing  U.  S.  A.: 

GENERAL:  I  have  received  your -letter* of 
this  date,  containing  the  terras  ol^surrender 
of  the  army  of  Northern  Virginia,,  as*pro- 
posed  by  you.  As  they  are  substantially  the 
same  as  those  expressed  in  your  letter  OF  the 
8th  instant,  they  are  accepted..  IwiDpro- 
ceed  to  designate  the  proper  officers- to  carry 
the  stipulations  into  effect.  Very  respect* 
fully,  your  obedient  servant, 

R.  R  LEE,  General. 

Now,  when  the  passions  have  subsided,  and 
"hands  are  shaking  over  ihe  bloody  chasm, " 
the  calm  and  reflecting  survivors  must  admit 
the  humanity  in  every  line  of  this  surrender, 
and  General  Grant  will  at.  least  have  accorded 
to  him  some  kind  feeling  over  this  general 
calamity. 

How  was  it  with  his  present  opponent,  but 
then  his  political  friend?  In  the  Tribune  of 
the  1st  of  May,  on  the  fourth  page,  in  tho 
fourth  column,  these  were  Mr.  Greeley's 
:erms : 

But,  nevertheless,  we  mean  to  conquer 
them;  not  merely  to  defeat,  but  to  conquer;  to 
subjugate  them;  and  we  shall  do  this  the 
most  mercifully,  the  more  speedily  we  do  it. 
3ut  when  the  rebellious  traitors  are  over 
whelmed  in  the  field  and  scattered  like  leaves 
before  an  angry  wind,  it  must  not  be  to  re- 
urn  to  peaceful  and  contented  homes.  They 
must  find  poverty  at  their  firesides  and  see 
privation  in  the  anxious  eyes  of  mothers  and 
ihe  rags  of  children." 

What  a  contrast.  The  one  full  of  human- 
ty  and  the  milk  of  human  kindness,  tho 
other  an  execrable  wretch,  belching  forth 
'oelings  and  sentiments  that  would  havo 
disgraced  Robespierre,  in  the  zenith  of  hi  a 
cruelty.  Others  under  the  lash  of  party  des- 
Dotism  may  feel  no  dishonor  to  their  victim 
n  supporting  Mr.  Greeley.  I  can  not  so  see 
t.  Every  feeling  of  my  heart  revolts  at  tho 
lacrifice,  and  no  considerations-can  influence 
me  to  make  it.  P.  CLAYTON. 


IEHEB-OF  GENERAL  JOHN  A,  DDL 


lT}  JlUy  27,  1872. 

rplTour  letter  of  the  *13ch  'Instant, 
«sking?«ny  aid  to*  procur»  a  speaker  for  a 
Greoley  meeting  atf  Hancock  was  sent  to  mo 
•while  1  was-'in  New  England,  and  I  have 
t>een*unable  until  now  to  acknowledge  its  re- 


do  not  understand  on  what  ground  you 
Considered  yourself  authorized  to  address 
request  to  mo.    If  you  had  been  fa- 
the  course  of  iny  political  life, 
Ljoqually  so  with  Mr.  Greefey'a,  you  could 
have  supposed  me  capable  of  advocating 
election  t»4ihe  ofiico  of  President  of  tlie 
United  States  withomfc  imputing  to  mo  an 
ikbkudonmcnt  of  all  political  principle. 
ni'Opposed  to  Mr.  Greoley: 
iBeeause  I  believe  him  to  bo  as  "unstable 
fijEtfwatcr/'  perpetually  floundering  (to  carry 
out  the  Scriptural  figure)  amid  the  surges  of 
<jpinioiv«Jijd  deficient  in  all  the  requisites 


al  to  a  firm,  steady,  and  consistent  ad 
rationx>f  tab  Government 

&*-J3ecaus&  no  has  usually  beoii  found 
fjjaong  the  most  extreme  ulcraiste  on  the 
great  questions  of  political  and  social  duty 
^hieb  have  been  brought  under  public  dis- 
$usslon  for  the  last  quarter  of  a  century. 

B..  Because  lis  has  bean  the  advocate  (and 
Snwthifl  instance  persistently)  of  that  most 
ajniustand  unequal  commercial  system  which 
53  destroying  our  mercantile  and  shipping  in 
terests,  and  lieaping  up  enormous  accumuia- 
tlonaof  wealth  m  tue  hands  of  the  protected 
tilasses  to  the  oppression  and  impoverishment 
ot<all  others. 

^  .Because  lip  is  associated,  in  relations 
moreor  less  intimate.  with  some  of  the  chief 
plunderers  of  the  city  of  New  York,  justly 
warranting  the  apprehension  that  through 
Hiis  -complicity  or  Ms  facile  disposition,  the 
same  system  of  fraud  and  corruption  which 
toas  disgraced  tho  municipal  government  of 
this  city  may  be  carried  to  more  infamous  ex- 
Sromos  in  the  administration  of  tho  Federal 
Government;  «md,  ; 

U.  Because  in  the  darkest  hour  of  the 
country's  peril,  when  a  traitorous  combiua- 
tion-haabeen  formed  to  overthrow  tho  Gov 
ernment,  lie  openly  counseled  the  cowardly 
policy  d£  non-resfst&ncft,  and  an  acquies 
cence  in-  the  dissolution  of  tho  Union,  when 
ever  the  cotton  States  should  make  up  their 
minds  to  go. 

Tho  coalition  which  Las  been  formed  to 

\promote  bio  election  is  one  of  the  most  extra 

ordinary  in  the  history  of  parties,  in  respect 

botli^to  the  discordant  elements  it  embraces 

and  the  surrender  of  principles  it  involves. 

Tho  Cincinnati  Convention,  called  to  bring. 


i,  nominated  him, 

of  tho  whole  country,  kno#i#g --him,  in 
gard  to  one  of  those  measures,  to  bo  an  im 
placable  opponent— nominate^  him,  too, 
against  the  wishes  and  Judgment  Of  |ho  cliler 
promoters  of  the  movement,  whowaccopted 
him,  either  with  an  avowed  or  an>  ill-con 
cealed  disgust,  which  would  be  far  more 
creditable  to  their  feelings  if  the  act  of  ac 
ceptance  wero  not  uttearly  irreconcUabie-with 
their  principles. 

The  Democratic  Convention,  at  Baltimore 
indorsed  and  commended  him  to  the  support 
of  their  party— not  as  the  exponent  of  any 
principles  they  have  professed  or  any  meas 
ures  they  have  advocated,  but  as  a  known 
and  bitter  opponent  of  both — the  man  -who, 
perhaps,  of  all  others,  has  been  tho-moOT 
malignant  assailant  of  the  DemocracyTlm- 
peaching  its  integrity,  traducing  Its  matures, 
arid  vilifving  its  character. 

The  adoption  of  such  a  man  as  tltel* Can 
didate  for  the  Ohief  Magistracy  of  the-  Union 
is  the  most  conspicuous  abandonment  of  po 
litical  principles  known  to  party  contests; 

It  remains  to  bo  seen  whether  the  groat 
body  of  the  Democratic  voters,  and  the  true 
friends  of  Reform,  can  be  made  parties  to 
this  unscrupulous  coalition  between  political 
leaders. 

That  General  Grant  baa  committed  mis 
takes  his  most  sincere  friends  admit.  But  if 
his  errors  had  been  four- fold  more  numerous, 
he  would,  in  my  opinion,  bo  a  much  safer 
Chief  Magistrate  than  Mr.  Greeley.  lie  has, 
in  that  capacity,  done  much  for  which  ho 
deserves  the  thanks  of  the  country.  Above 
all,  he  has  kept  it  at  peace,  notwithstanding 
the  efforts  of  sensation  journals  and  popu 
larity-seeking  politicians  to  provoke  hostili 
ties  with  Spain  on  the  question  of  Cuba,  and 
with  Great  Britain  on  the  Alabama,  ckiuLs 
and  the  fisheries.  , 

If,  regardless  of  these  titles  to  the  approval 
of  his  fellow-citizens,  and  of  his  invaluable 
services  during  the  late  civil  war.  they  should 
set  him  aside  for  Mr.  Greeley:  if  the  latter,  a 
mere  erratic  politician,  untried  in  any  im 
portant  public  trust,  should  be  elevated  to 
ttie  Chief  Magistracy  of  tho; Union — a  Union 
which  would  not  now  exist  if  his  counsels 
had  been  followed— and  if  the  man  who,  ol 
all  others,  has  done  the  most  to  preserve  it 
should  be  discarded  for  a  successor  so  ill 
qualified  and  so  unscrupulously  nominated 
and  sustained,  the  example  would  bo  most 
deplorable  in  its  influence  on  all  high  motives 
to  political  action,  and  justify  thiijnogjbpain- 
ful  forebodings  as  io  the  lu.tu.ra 

I  am  respectfully  youro,     4Q5S  A'.  T)ix. 


U.C.  BERKE  EY  I IBRARIES 


